Another New Mexico Airport Regains Service

After nearly eight years, SkyWest and United will bring air service back to a small New Mexico city.

Joey Gerardi

Monday, January 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM ET

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A United Express CRJ-200 arriving into Chicago O’Hare. [Credit: AirlineGeeks/ Joey Gerardi]

Key Takeaways:

Farmington, New Mexico, will resume scheduled air service on May 8, 2025, after an almost eight-year hiatus, with daily United Express flights to Denver operated by SkyWest Airlines.
The service is enabled by an $850,000 federal grant and a unique $6.9 million "risk-sharing agreement" with SkyWest, where the city only pays if flight revenues fall below operational costs.
This marks Farmington as the fifth New Mexico city to reconnect to the air network, partly facilitated by the state's Rural Air Service Enhancement grant.

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Farmington, New Mexico, a city in the state’s northwestern corner, will be regaining air service after nearly eight years. The last time the airport had regular flights was back in 2017 with Great Lakes Airlines, which ended service just five months before the airline collapsed entirely.

The city will be receiving $850,000 from the Department of Transportation’s Small Community Air Service Development Program (SCASDP), and it also applied for New Mexico’s Rural Air Service Enhancement grant, which provides $2.75 million to several rural airports across the state.